Originally Posted by Kiba

Some adults don't understand. But Anime dives into more complex stories, and have a point each and every episode (continuing from the previous episode and the plot stays the same throughout the series). Where as cartoons there isn't any point to anything made, it's always something random all the time. True they are both animation, but some adults need to understand the difference between a cartoon and an Anime (I have yet to convince my friends otherwise, they still have it dead set that Anime is a cartoon..)